Oblivion Hits 3 Million, Too

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Oblivion Hits 3 Million, Too

Hey, I guess Gears of War isn't the only Xbox game to hit three million units this week. In tandem with their announcement of expansion pack Shivering Isles, Bethesda announced that Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has sold three million units across all platforms, worldwide.

And that's without the PlayStation 3 version, wherever the hell that is!

Full release after the jump.

BethesdaSoftworks Announces *The Elder Scrolls IV: *

__Shivering Isles™ —Official Expansion for Oblivion__

Spring Release Planned for Official Expansion for 2006 Game of the Year as Oblivion Sales Top Three Million Units

January 18 2007 (Rockville, MD)— Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax Media company, today confirmed the upcoming release of TheElder Scrolls IV®: Shivering Isles™,* the official expansion for the award-winning The Elder Scrolls IV®: Oblivion™. * __*Shivering Isles *__will be released for Xbox 360™video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows this Spring. Details are presented in the exclusive cover story for OfficialXbox Magazine’s (US)February issue, which hits newsstands this week.

__*Shivering Isles *__features more than 30 hours of new gameplay and allows you to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion – the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince ofMadness. Shivering Islesadds to the existing world of Oblivion so you can continue playing with your existing save game/character, or create an all new character just to explore the new content.

“We’re thrilled with the response that Oblivion has received to date and feel that ShiveringIsles will offer a whole new and different experience to anyone who played and enjoyed Oblivion,”said Todd Howard, executive producer for The Elder Scrolls.

Within the Realm of Sheogorath, players can explore the two extreme sides of the god’s madness – the sublimely creative and the completely psychotic. Something is happening to theShivering Isles and Sheogorath himself looks to you to be his champion and defend his realm and its inhabitants from destruction. Do you have the strength to survive his trials, tame a realm fraught with paranoia and despair, and wear the mantle of a God?

The ShiveringIsles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides – Mania and Dementia –filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within. You’ll encounter more than a dozen new creatures including hideous insects, Flesh Atronachs, skeletal Shambles, amphibious Grummites. Throughout your adventure, you will discover all new items, ingredients, spells, and more, and have the talented craftsmen ofCrucible and Bliss forge new armor and weapons just for you.

“The enthusiastic response we’ve received to our downloadable content has been overwhelming, and we’re excited to bring __*Oblivion *__fans a full expansion,”said Vlatko Andonov, president ofBethesda Softworks. “The world we’ve created for Shivering Isles is unlike anything you’ve seen or played in Oblivion and we can’t wait for folks to play it.”

Released in March 2006 for Xbox360™ videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft andWindows, Oblivionsold more than three million units in 2006. Among the countless awards and accolades it has garnered to date are Game of the Year and RPG of the Year honors from numerous outlets, including Spike TV’s 2006 Video GameAwards, G4’s G-phoria, the Golden Joystick Awards, GameSpot.com,ShackNews.com, Voodoo Extreme, FiringSquad.com, and many more. Oblivion received the#1 ranking on PC Gamer’s (UK)list of the top 100 games of all time and is the highest rated Xbox 360 game of all time according to Gamerankings.com.

The Windows version of __*Shivering Isles *__will be available at retail and is co-published by Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games, while the Xbox 360 version is currently planned for release through Xbox Live®online entertainment network by Bethesda Softworks. For more information on Oblivion,Shivering Isles, or The Elder Scrolls, visit the official web site: www.elderscrolls.com.